Marie Joséphine Joubert de la Bastide
Name: Marie Joséphine Joubert de la Bastide, married Laurent
Aliases: None, she dislikes being called names
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Rank/Occupation: Governor’s Daughter
Current Location: Port de Paix, Saint Domingue, Hispaniola
Character PB: Marie Cavallier
General appearance: Marie is a beautiful young girl who look very much like her mother. She is short however as both her parents aren’t very tall. She has chocolate brown hair and similar coloured eyes. She has a nice smile that she often shares with people.
Clothing: Marie is always dressed in the latest fashion from France . She loves the elegant dresses appropriate for her social position, but also the simpler, more comfortable ones if she is at her father's estate, not in the town.
She inherited a nice purple dress from her mother she loves very much and will not part with no matter the fashion.
Personality: Marie is a kind and optimistic girl who enjoys her time under the Caribbean sun. She is a very playful person and will do what she can to have a good time while still behaving appropriately of cause. She smiles a lot and that also makes it very easy to spot if something had upset her or made her sad. She loves the sea and enjoys every time she can accompany her father to an inspection of the Navy ships.
Strengths: – She’s smart, romantic and optimistic
Weaknesses: – A little too playful sometimes, a bit picky when it comes to men and not really understanding of the poor people’s lives.
Birth place: Rochefort, France
Family: Father – Charles Joubert de la Bastide
Mother – Theresa d’Orleans (deceased)
siblings – None
spouse, children, anybody else – none
Born in Rochefort in France she was brough up into a wealthy family and in the heart of fashion making. Her family on her father’s side was all military men of some kind and on her mothers side they were higher nobility, with political influence. During her upbringing she spend a lot of her time with her mother, as her father was a busy man at sea. She grew more fond of her mother and although she loved when her father was home, he couldn’t replace her mother. Her Grandfather paid for her to have the best private teachers in the region to teach Marie what she should know including, calculating and languages. She was taught in French reading and writing as well as Spanish and of cause Latin so she could follow the ceremonies at church. She always had a great interest in exploring new things and learning new things so she paid good attention to the teachers.
This made it a total tragedy for her though when her mother got ill by smallpox and died when Marie was only nine years old. For a while Little Marie was being taken care of by her aunt on her mothers side and if not fate had intervened she might have been staying in France with her Aunt. But a new career for her father seemed to make him less bound to the military and more into politics - he got appointed the Governor of Saint Domingue. It was decided that Marie should follow her father to the Caribbean and settle there. It would be a good experience for her. And a good way for her to meet new people and especially young officers in the King’s Service in need of a good wife. Or perhaps rich plantation owners, too.
The trip to Hispaniola was amazing. Her father was used to a life at sea and he managed to make her feel comfortable at first until her sealegs were more used to the rocking of the ship. Then she started to love the sea. The opportunities and challenges it presented her. Of course when not being told to be more careful by scared officers who saw no fun in her sniffing around the large ship.
The islands were just as amazing and dream like to her. The temperature was always nice and it was hard not to be happy all the time. And naturally the new title of her father’s made her family very influential in the town. Well in the entire island in fact. She quickly found some good places to be and play around and one of those places was the harbour where her father often would inspect the French warships. What perfect opportunity for Marie to explore more?
Weapon Skills: none
Theme song: Just around the river bend!
Player's name: Mascha
